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John Henderson is Professor of Italian Renaissance History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London; Research Professor, Monash University, Melbourne; and Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. He has published widely on renaissance and early modern Italy and monographs include: Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence (Oxford UP, 1994; Chicago UP, 1997); The Great Pox. The French Disease in Renaissance Europe, with Jon Arrizabalaga and Roger French (Yale UP, 1997); and The Renaissance Hospital. Healing the Body and Healing the Soul (Yale UP, 2006); and the forthcoming volume Plague and the City, with Lukas Engleman and Christos Lynteris (Routledge, 2018).